Missionaries of Africa, Jinja

“This article has incorporated some ideas from the books:  Pedagogy of the Oppressed  by Paulo Freiro, and  Existentialism is Humanism  by Jean Paul Sartre. These are the books that have inspired me to write this article.” A society that does not recreate itself is more dead than alive. This is the case with the Congo. From 1960, the year in which Congo got her independence, there has been a number of unreasonable wars that has left the country in total depression and despair.  When Lumumba, the Congolese freedom fighter and great hero in the history, officially announced the independence of his nation there emerged a lot of forced violence. The so called ‘ les martyrs de  l’independance ’  were killed due to the violence that took place at the period, that is from the 1959 to the 1960s. They stood courageously and violently to demand for their right. I think this was not the right way to do so, but that was for them the possible mean to ...

“Good leadership is fundamentally about one’s qualities and attitudes. In other words, it is not so much about your position as a manager, administrator or subordinate within the institution. Good leadership is having a clear vision. A leader is always going somewhere, never satisfied with simply maintaining the status Quo. Their task is to engage the future of their department or institution creatively. It is commonly said that people fall into two main categories: those who mould the future and those who are moulded by it. As a leader you have to belong to the first category. Leaders also have to have a vision for those they lead, inspiring and challenging them, in order to get the best out of them. Good leadership involves possessing the willingness to delegate. As a leader, you are a team leader. You need to change your focus from doing a job well, to equipping others to do it-perhaps even better than yourself! All leaders handle power, and none are exempt from the tem...

“We don’t need unity in theory, we need solidarity in practice” Curious George Brigade, anarchy in the age of Dinosaurs Solidarity can be defined as a bond/unity between or among persons bonded by the same unifying principles. In the lay man’s linguistic tenable, we can refer to it as being fully and lively present to the other. We live our solidarity in a meaningful way by keenly being attentive to the needs of others; CHARITY.  I n Lavigerie House I have observed that we actually manifest solidarity in two dimensions; first in the interior; within our family which begins from the team since we live in teams. Secondly, in the exterior; where we extend to people outside our community, that is, the consortium (Philosophy Centre Jinja), our pastoral places and the rest of the communities around us. Nicholas Iwuala

Filbert Tarimo The spirit of caring for the environment in Lavigerie House, is enjoyable. It surrounds several kinds of intelligence. Normally the Society of the Missionaries of Africa, nurtures students to grow in the aspects of intellectual, spiritual, human formation and pastoral work. As part of the signs of intellectual growth, which is intermingled with spiritual formation, human formation incorporates doing manual work which involves several intelligences, such as body/kinaesthetic and spacial intelligences. The use of the body parts, creatively to make the compound beautiful, also, helping in the development of sufficient reasons for the existence of things the way they appear by nature and how they should look like. Areas of concentration include our gardens, where we obtain our vegetables, our animal farm, our banana plantation where we obtain our yellow bananas and Matooke. Together with this, we have candidates who are committed in taking care of our Chapel wo...